Ask Lifehacker Reader: Best blogging webapps?My favorites include del.icio.us for remaindered links, Flickr for posting photos, and WordPress for posting overall. (The software that makes posting to Lifehacker feel like I’m sticking hot pins in my eyes, MovableType? Not so much.) What webapps would you nominate for the bloggies? I am interested in fringe apps that have not received much press.

I’d have to say WordPress is my favorite webapp right now. It’s come so far in the past 6 months, just imagine where it’ll be in another 6 months or a year…

I guess I really don’t use many other truly web-based apps. I’d love to find a version of Furl / del.icio.us / Wink / etc / etc /etc that would truly fit my needs and feature a layout that isn’t ass ugly. Who’d have thought that essentially “online organized bookmarks” would be such a hard thing to develop?

I know that didn’t really relate to anything about your question, but just in case there are any talented programmers reading that have extra time (and money?) on their hands and want something to work on…

FeedLounge would be tops on my list as well (and honestly, it’s really the only other webapp I use).

And the first person that mentions GMail is going to get smacked with a wet fish. When there’s a GMail-esk webmail client I can download and put on my self-hosted mail server, we’ll talk… (hint hint to those aspiring programmers I just mentioned).

If you’re a bookfiend like me, you’ll probably like Library Elf, which allows you to track your checked out books, received emails of due dates/overdue reminders, etc., and LibraryThing, which allows you to keep an online, taggable, searchable library of your own books.

If you’re a bookfiend like me, you’ll probably like Library Elf, which allows you to track your checked out books, received emails of due dates/overdue reminders, etc., and LibraryThing, which allows you to keep an online, taggable, searchable library of your own books.

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Mark Ghosh

An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.